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Informació de l'obraUna dona difícil de John Irving (1998)
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Una dona difícil és un tríptic sobre la vida de Ruth Cole. La novel la s'obre l'estiu de 1958, quan la Ruth tan sols té quatre anys i viu a l'ombra de la separació imminent dels seus pares i els fantasmes dels germans morts. La retrobem al cap de trenta anys, convertida en una novel lista de renom però insatisfeta. El tríptic es tanca el 1995, quan la Ruth, vídua i mare, està a punt d'enamorar-se per primera vegada. A Una dona difícil John Irving ha tornat a sorprendre els lectors amb una història còmica i pertorbadora alhora, sobre els dimonis familiars i la necessitat de trobar la redempció personal.
Mit seinem neuen Roman "A Widow for One Year" steigt John Irving aus den literarischen Tiefen, die er mit "A Son of the Circus" erreicht hatte, wieder hervor. Verloren sich in letzterem die Charaktere und Handlungsstränge in einem Erzählwust, der den locker-beschwingten Erzählgestus Irvings vermissen ließ, so findet Irving mit seinem neuen Roman zu alter Souveränität zurück. Té l'adaptacióPremisDistincions
"A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony."--USA Today In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Praise for A Widow for One Year "Compelling . . . By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments. . . . A testament to one of life's most difficult lessons: In the end, you just have to find a way to keep going."--San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A sprawling 19th-century production, chock full of bizarre coincidences, multiple plot lines, lengthy digressions, and stories within stories. . . . An engaging and often affecting fable, a fairy tale that manages to be old-fashioned and modern all at once."--The New York Times"[Irving's] characters can beguile us onto thin ice and persuade us to dance there. His instinctive mark is the moral choice stripped bare, and his aim is impressive. What's more, there's hardly a writer alive who can match his control of the omniscient point of view."--The Washington Post Book World "In the sprawling, deeply felt A Widow for One Year, John Irving has delivered his best novel since The World According to Garp. . . . Like a warm bath, it's a great pleasure to immerse yourself in."--Entertainment Weekly "John Irving is arguably the American Balzac, or perhaps our Dickens--a rip-roaring storyteller whose intricate plot machinery is propelled by good old-fashioned greed, foolishness and passion."--The Nation "Powerful . . . a masterpiece."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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M'ha sorprés que molts lectors comenten que no és un bon llibre, comparat amb "el món segons Garp" o "Les normes de la Casa de la Sidra" així que m'hauré de llegir-los per a comparar. ( )